Editing Mayflower Compact (section)

== Signers ==
{{Further|Mayflower Compact signatories}}
[[File:1920USstamp5centPilgrimTercentenarySigningCompact.jpg|thumb|right|1920 U.S. postage stamp depicting the signing of the compact]]
[[File:MayflowerCompactBasrelief.jpg|thumb|right|[[Signing the Mayflower Compact|Signing of the Mayflower Compact]] Bas-relief by [[Cyrus Edwin Dallin|Cyrus Dallin]] at the [[Pilgrim Monument]]  Provincetown, Massachusetts]]

A list of 41 male passengers who signed the document was supplied by Bradford's nephew [[Nathaniel Morton]] in his 1669 ''New England's Memorial''. [[Thomas Prince (historian)|Thomas Prince]] first numbered the names in his 1736 ''A Chronological History of New-England in the form of Annals''.<ref name=Prince1736/> The original document has been lost, so Morton is the sole source for the signers. He probably had access to the original document, but he could not have known the actual order in which it was signed simply by inspecting it. Morton's arrangement of names might not have been the arrangement on the original document, and the names on the original may not have been arranged in any orderly fashion. Prince's numbers are based solely on Morton, as he himself stated.<ref name=Bowman/>

Morton's list of names was unnumbered and untitled in all six editions (1669–1855), although their order changed with successive editions. In his original 1669 edition, the names were placed on two successive pages forming six short columns, three per page.<ref name=Bowman/> In subsequent editions, these six short columns were combined into three long columns on a single page in two different ways, producing two different orders in unnumbered lists of signers. The second (1721) and third (1772) editions changed the order of the first edition by combining the first and fourth columns into the first long column, and similarly for the other columns. The fifth (1826) and sixth (1855) editions returned the names to their original first edition order by combining the first and second short columns into the first long column, and similarly for the other columns. Prince numbered the names in their original 1669 Morton order. He added titles (Mr. or Capt.) to 11 names that were given those titles by William Bradford in the list of passengers at the end of his manuscript.<ref name=Prince1736/><ref name=Bradford1901/>

The following list of signers is organized into the six short columns of Morton (1669) with the numbers and titles of Prince. The names are given their modern spelling according to Morison.<ref name=Morison/> Use the numbers for the order used by genealogists and half of unnumbered lists (Samuel Fuller will be the eighth name), but merge the half columns vertically into full columns for the order used by the other half of unnumbered lists (John Turner will be the eighth name).

{{columns list|colwidth=50em|
#Mr. [[John Carver (Mayflower passenger)|John Carver]]
#[[William Bradford (Plymouth governor)|William Bradford]]
#Mr. [[Edward Winslow (Mayflower passenger)|Edward Winslow]]
#Mr. [[William Brewster (Mayflower passenger)|William Brewster]]
#Mr. [[Isaac Allerton]]
#Capt. [[Myles Standish]]
#[[John Alden]]
#Mr. [[Samuel Fuller (Mayflower physician)|Samuel Fuller]]
#Mr. [[Christopher Martin (Mayflower passenger)|Christopher Martin]]
#Mr. [[William Mullins (Mayflower passenger)|William Mullins]]
#Mr. [[William White (Mayflower passenger)|William White]]
#Mr. [[Richard Warren]]
#[[John Howland]]
#Mr. [[Stephen Hopkins (Mayflower passenger)|Stephen Hopkins]]
#[[Edward Tilley]]
#[[John Tilley (Mayflower passenger)|John Tilley]]
#[[Francis Cooke]]
#[[Thomas Rogers (Mayflower passenger)|Thomas Rogers]]
#[[Thomas Tinker]]
#John Rigsdale
#[[Edward Fuller (Mayflower)|Edward Fuller]]
#John Turner
#[[Francis Eaton (Mayflower passenger)|Francis Eaton]]
#[[James Chilton]]
#[[John Crackstone]]
#[[John Billington]]
#[[Moses Fletcher]]
#John Goodman
#[[Degory Priest]]
#[[Thomas Williams (Mayflower)|Thomas Williams]]
#Gilbert Winslow
#Edmund Margeson
#[[Peter Browne (Mayflower passenger)|Peter Browne]]
#Richard Britteridge
#[[George Soule (Mayflower passenger)|George Soule]]
#Richard Clarke
#Richard Gardiner
#[[John Allerton]]
#Thomas English
#[[Edward Doty]]
#Edward Leister
}}